Leeds travel down to Villa Park on Friday evening to play an in form Villa side five points from an automatic spot. An inevitable defeat & we could drop another place

I assume Saiz & Alioski will start after being rested or dropped on Tuesday night. I hope Pablo doesn't suffer the same fate tomorrow

Jansson is unfit to play so we haven't got a recognised defender in our back-four with what was our 3rd choice keeper between the sticks

Apologies for sounding cynical does anyone actually think that all the injuries are genuine?

Berardi excludes himself from the club by getting himself suspended for five games and has caught a plane to Ibiza! What were we saying about passion for our club?

What an utter shambles

Berardi gave up the ghost when the players got a public bashing from Radz, the fact they have let him go on his jollies when he should be made train with the u23's shows that the powers haven't a f**king clue.

Berardi gave up the ghost when the players got a public bashing from Radz, the fact they have let him go on his jollies when he should be made train with the u23's shows that the powers haven't a f**king clue.

Yep shocking mate Berardi should have his tracksuit on not his beach shorts

Imagine being paid 12k plus a week for sunning yourself on the beach when you are suppose to be working

Surely be to god Heckingbottom has enough tactical knowledge to know he cant play Anita and Dallas at full back again?

He has a working pair of eyes?

They wouldn't be my choices Cjay but tbh Hecky isn't on a level playing field with not one defender or keeper that started the season.

It was bad enough losing Bartley & Taylor at the end of last season but to lose Jansson, Ayling, Berardi with no back-up of Cooper, Pennington & De Bock is a crazy situation. I've never known our whole recognised defence unavailable in the 55 years I've supported Leeds.

Apologies for sounding cynical does anyone actually think that all the injuries are genuine?

Well we had the sicknote six incident with Redfearn and the O'Brien situation with Grayson.

It's incredible bad luck to lose all your senior defenders, it wouldn't surprise me if there was more to it.

Radrizzani and Heckingbottom have both publicly criticised the players, so they won't be happy about that.

There seems to have been a few mysterious injuries that have happened behind the scenes, I even think some of Alioski's misses have been so bad that he's doing it deliberately.

If I had to pick a team from what we've got available then I'd be tempted to play Kalvin Phillips as a sweeper between the two young centre halves, with Alioski and Dallas as wing backs, just to give us more cover and experience at the back.

Well we had the sicknote six incident with Redfearn and the O'Brien situation with Grayson.

It's incredible bad luck to lose all your senior defenders, it wouldn't surprise me if there was more to it.

Radrizzani and Heckingbottom have both publicly criticised the players, so they won't be happy about that.

There seems to have been a few mysterious injuries that have happened behind the scenes, I even think some of Alioski's misses have been so bad that he's doing it deliberately.

If I had to pick a team from what we've got available then I'd be tempted to play Kalvin Phillips as a sweeper between the two young centre halves, with Alioski and Dallas as wing backs, just to give us more cover and experience at the back.

The thing is it isn't an excuse for the mediocrity as it isn't like results have nose-died since the injuries started piling up. And it is also the reason that we have the reserve and youth teams so that we have defenders in reserve so that they can come in and know their positions. It is not like we have to play midfielders in defence......

The thing is it isn't an excuse for the mediocrity as it isn't like results have nose-died since the injuries started piling up. And it is also the reason that we have the reserve and youth teams so that we have defenders in reserve so that they can come in and know their positions. It is not like we have to play midfielders in defence......

Come on Weasel the chances of us gaining a victory now is very remote indeed with so many experienced players missing even though the majority are mediocre to say the least.
Your comment is just another excuse to lay into Hecky who is right under the cosh We all know he's probably not up to the job but for gods sake show a bit of consideration to the plight of the cards he's been dealt with

If he hadn't have played people out of position... they would not have been there to get injured or sent off, and the players in position would not have been trying harder to protect the out of position players, and would not have been injured or sent off for trying too hard..

See logical innit... Heckyarse is to blame.. . QED mainly because Tom Lees is not here to blame...

“There comes a time in every mans life when he must do what he must do

So I tell the wife when she tells me to get off my arse and do some work.

Come on Weasel the chances of us gaining a victory now is very remote indeed with so many experienced players missing even though the majority are mediocre to say the least.
Your comment is just another excuse to lay into Hecky who is right under the cosh We all know he's probably not up to the job but for gods sake show a bit of consideration to the plight of the cards he's been dealt with

Was just pointing out that whilst he may have excuses for losing now he didn't have any legitimate ones before and pointing out that there was still no need to play midfielders in defence especially given that the injuries only started happening after the season was effectively over so it made more sense to try out the reserve defenders rather than playing midfielders in defence.
You stick up for Hecky though 64 as I am sure you are more than happy to keep believing his excuses as the team plummets even further.

Was just pointing out that whilst he may have excuses for losing now he didn't have any legitimate ones before and pointing out that there was still no need to play midfielders in defence especially given that the injuries only started happening after the season was effectively over so it made more sense to try out the reserve defenders rather than playing midfielders in defence.
You stick up for Hecky though 64 as I am sure you are more than happy to keep believing his excuses as the team plummets even further.

I don't think he is the right man for such a big job managing Leeds United. All I'm doing is being fair to the man who has been dealt a cruel blow with so many players unavailable to him

I can't recall in all my 55 years following Leeds where we've had the whole of our recognised defence unavailable for a league match.
The closest was probably in 1970 v Burnley when Eddie Gray scored two wonderful goals to win the game with a weakened team, even then we had Madeley & Harvey in our defence

If he hadn't have played people out of position... they would not have been there to get injured or sent off, and the players in position would not have been trying harder to protect the out of position players, and would not have been injured or sent off for trying too hard..

See logical innit... Heckyarse is to blame.. . QED mainly because Tom Lees is not here to blame...

Berardi played LB for much of last season. Up until his sending off for the 6th time so no excuses there imo, he was our only RB as Ayling was injured & Coyle out on loan. De Bock who replaced the inept CBJ is also injured. Cooper who has played LB in the past is also injured. So whoever is the manager in these circumstances are trying to do a job with their arms tied behind there back

Meanwhile Berardi is sunning himself in Ibiza

Pontus has probably headed back to Sweden in anticipation of his future fatherhood

De Bock has probably gone missing somewhere in Belgium although he did that on the pitch